Example sentences for: shinto

How can you use “shinto” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To the right is the Kaguraden, a hall where ceremonial dances are performed to honor the gods — and where, for a modest fee, couples can have Shinto wedding ceremonies performed, complete with flutes and drums and shrine maidens to attend them.

  • These deceptively simple structures are no less than the sacred repository of the national identity — Shinto sanctuaries dedicated nearly 2,000 years ago to Japan’s founding deities.

  • This is a special style of Shinto architecture that is prohibited from being used at other shrines.

  • Each year in an important ceremony, the emperor plants rice in a symbolic field, reinforcing his role as the hereditary link between the Japanese people and their Shinto gods.

  • Wakakusa is the Kasuga Grand Shrine, established to house the Shinto deities of the powerful Fujiwara family.


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